So, I've only just learned about the harassment allegations against Garrison Keillor...

So, I've only just learned about the harassment allegations against Garrison Keillor. Not only do I have not clue where this cycle of allegations is going to end, but I've been thinking about what kind of influence this is going to have on our culture. Well the hell do you think we're heading?

Any flirtation by men will be grounds for sexual harassment claims. Women are responsible for initiating dating.

In other words, we're fucking doomed.

we still haven't figured out the difference between rape and regretted sex, there's no way we will figure out the difference between sexual harassment and regretted flirtation

Stopped hiring women at my place of business.

This is more or less what I'm afraid of, but I can't express that in real life without people going straight to thinking I'm defending perverts. It's like we're trying to completely dismantle millennia worth of cultural memory about how men and women should interact. Yeah, maybe there is a lot we can improve on, but I feel like we're left without any sort of code to fall back on. As if expressing interest and dating weren't already complicated enough...

what did this monster do?

The digits don't lie

Here's his explanation for what happened, but this this pretty much all we know:

>In an email to the Star Tribune Wednesday, Keillor said, “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back. I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it. We were friends. We continued to be friendly right up until her lawyer called.

this is how they smash the patriarchy.

now there's a huge risk associated with having men in positions of power in an organization. may not matter much in business, but this will impact politics. it's a lot safer to run women candidates and not have to risk a barrage of accusations (false or otherwise).

so in the long run this will make men less valuable than women, also increase the cost of doing business, make (((lawyers))) richer and grow the HR departments which are already a pit of worthlessness, filled with low iq women and gays

Seriously? Lmfao it's time to rein women in or we're all fucked.

He raped a woman's lower back with his penis-fingers.

So he is a filthy rapist.

Men who read this kind of thing can no longer be of good will towards feminism.

Is it gay to touch myself with my penis fingers?

He got carried away role-playing as Guy Noir?

He had his own interpretation of "Private Eye."

This is leading to Sharia. Seriously. Men and women will be isolated from one another. That’s not totally bad in certain cases, but yeah, it will be Muslim based not Christian based.

I just don't understand. The left wants sharia law so badly, but the only person who will benefit from it are straight white males.

Should not be touching people. I'm serious.
And how the fuck would you know someone is unhappy? When I ask if someone is OK it really is a work-related question.
>Is everything OK?
Really TV means I noticed your work is subpar and that's not exceptable unless you have a plausable explanation.
>Take all the time you need and come back when your ready.
Means don't waste my fucking time. Fix your shit or get out.
You have to be a hard-ass with no emotion or they don't respect you...I'd prefer fear, actually.
I don't give two shits about their feelings, home-life, opinions, beliefs...only what relates to work.
That should be everyone's view. Workplace isn't for horndogs trying to grab a feel or even people looking to make friends.
Be working, not chit-chatting about off-work shit.

t. world's shittiest boss

I like how you addressed courtship. I feel like that's a big issue simply because it's the man's responsibility...but now we're getting so paranoid and sexual harassment, it's difficult to court - there's a fine line now between courtship and harassment and everyone defines it a little differently. So I agree: the confusing has just become more confusing.

someplace funny. we'll be right there to enjoy the fun.

Extramarital sex will go down!

Funny, isn't it? The whole M*A*S*H movie and TV show made sexual harassment mainstream. The whole "Playboy" thing.

The same fucking assholes who made sexual harassment mainstream have now sided with the puritans.

Why? Because the politics of it suits them.

People are too dumb to even notice.

Literally the only blueprints for courtship I was given were those I could glean from the poisonous media I ingested growing up. It basically consisted of "be a nice guy beta faggot" and "stop hitting on women, they hate that shit". Fucked me up really bad, don't know if I can be salvaged at this stage of the game. I just wanted a good feminine women to love, cherish, protect and provide for, but that doesn't appear to be an option any longer.

It's a moral panic (learn history, these happen every twenty years), and a major reason why we normally do not "believe her."

>Should not be touching people. I'm serious.
A world in which people never touch one another is a world in which everyone will go mad. It's the one of the most primal forms of human social bonding. You take that away and you see people start to break.

>Should not be touching people. I'm serious.
This is the direction we're heading, and it's ruining us as animals. We need physical human contact every day and because of bullshit like these allegations, as well as just the general attitude of society in the modern day, most of us arent getting anywhere near enough phsycal contact and it's making us all unhealthy and depressed. I'm not talking about anything sexual, to be clear.

Garrison Keiller touched a woman's back. He apologized. She forgave him. Then her lawyer called him...

So I'm done with this shit. Women: fuck off. There's no appropriate way for men to flirt with you? You need us to be psychic? You need us to make sense of completely contradictory messages about how you want us to be?

No. I'm done. I have porn. I have a hand. Fuck all of you.

You gentlemen are doing kek's work

The left is going too far. They don't want justice, they just want to see people's lives ruined when ever a woman cries just so that they can feel good about what awesome people they are because they are so forward thinking.

This is a very positive development. There is only two directions to go from her. Either this will cause men to become to paranoid to work with women and the workplace will return to a more traditional model with the sexes somewhat segregated and men taking the lead in running companies etc, or women will take over. We win either way, the first scenario would be society becoming more sane, the second scenario is accelerationist and it would crash and burn very quickly since women are incompetent emotional babies. When everything is in flames then men will reassert themselves and we return to a more traditional gender arraignment. Either way we win and feminism is pushed back.

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